From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 3 23:17: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30FB237B400 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 23:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C394743E65 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 23:17:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g746Gtoi003913; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 23:16:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g746GtHP003912; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 23:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 23:16:55 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Clint Olsen Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports: mutt with curses instead of slang? Message-ID: <20020804061655.GM1973@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: ports@freebsd.org References: <20020724175641.GA16725@0lsen.net> <20020725162811.GD96372@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020730214952.GA38950@0lsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020730214952.GA38950@0lsen.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 02:49:52PM -0700, Clint Olsen wrote: > On Jul 25, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > Slang should be used when built by the FreeBSD Package cluster. I much > > prefer slang over ncurses -- I don't remember the battle I lost such that > > ncurses is the default. Just build with `make WANT_SLANG=yes' > > Can you tell me where this WANT_SLANG is documented? This is one part > about BSD that I don't like - the intricate build stuff... No where really. I don't know how to nicely document the various port building knobs other than having someone read the port makefile. Maybe we need to add a new make target that prints out all the knobs and a one-line description? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message